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Embracing Conflict At Beth and Jim’s house, the dining room had become a war zone. Exhausted after a long day of work, all they wanted was to find some comfort from each other. Instead, an argument about household chores had escalated into a full-blown yelling match. Conflict shows up when what we want […]

When unfavorable situations, actions and emotional conflicts happen again and again in your life—same scene, different characters—there’s a good chance you are in the presence of a negative “pattern.” Some examples: picking the wrong lovers/partners, constant conflict with co-workers, chronic debting, people-pleasing. At best, these negative patterns cause frustration. At worst, they cause […]

Welcome to 2017 and a happy New Year to all! It is that time of year when so many people decide it’s time to set THE resolution. Unfortunately very few people actually fulfill the resolutions and in fact many times these same people even feel worse after they made a resolution. Why is that? Well, […]

When our children come to us with a problem, we usually want to help them. So we console, interpret, advise, distract or praise. Other times, we feel we must teach our children, and so we interrogate, lecture, moralize or order. And probably more often than we’d like, we respond angrily—blaming, criticizing, ridiculing, shaming or withdrawing. […]

Do you ever have thoughts like these? My life would be better if I looked better. I will never look as good as _____________. My _________ is/are so ugly. I am so fat. That scale/size can’t be right. I look disgusting; no one could ever love me. If you do, you’re not alone. In a […]

Is your skin itchy? Dry? Are you getting a rash and waking up at night digging at your skin? I KNOW what that is like and it is no picnic. During the winter months our skin undergoes changes in how it feels and behaves which we might not necessarily enjoy. The moisture in the air […]

To go on a retreat usually conjures up images of remote, sometimes exotic, locations for anywhere from a weekend to a month. When we can’t afford the time away, or the cost, we can still derive some of the benefit by finding ways in our everyday lives to retreat and renew. Here are just a […]

If trying to maintain balance in your life makes you sometimes feel like Terrifico, the Terrified Tightrope Walker in the Circus of Life, working without a net while the crowd below holds their breath in anticipation of a slip, you’re not alone. These days almost all of us have so many demands placed on our […]

For many people the holiday spirit is filled with joy, anticipation, and of course the stress of the perfect gift. We are searching to give, make, prepare, bake, design, wrap and beautify that ever so elusive”perfect gift” and experience. We want the image, design, and overall experience of the holiday season to be loving and […]